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Tuesday, December 21, 2010

I didn't know how to decorate the dining room this year. We purchased new furniture early in the year and swapped out a plate rack for this big mirror.

The plate rack held our Christmas china so now I didn't know where I was going to put it all. I also wanted to keep the buffet accessible for it's true purpose-serving food- but I wanted it to have some decoration. A quick trip to Good Will solved my problems. I found this Bombay & Company tray table which I figured could provide another (much needed) surface in the room.

It's acting as a mini bar. I added a few coppery brown ornaments to the tray and popped the Partridge in a Pear tree topiary into the Pottery Barn ice bucket. A few cocktail shakers and some Ikea champagne flutes from my daughter's Sweet 16 brunch add to the bar look.

From the front entrance, looking into the dining room.

The other pivotal piece I found was a mercury glass jar. It was perfect for the buffet.

I moved the topiaries in from the family room and added in more of the coppery ornaments and champagne flutes.

These will be easy to move when it's time to serve Christmas dinner.

And the best thing about the room decorating process was that all of our Christmas china fit in our new china cabinet without having to move too many regular pieces.

19 comments:

My decorating challenge this year? Our 1 year old who thrashes eveything in sight! HAHA. We got a small tree and put it on the dining room table and removed all the chairs (after he was found sitting on the table, eating a candy cane off the tree.) Oh well, next year!

Redesigning a dining room does indeed demand a number of new choices. Your've done a wonderful job on your buffet and china cabinet. Thank you for sharing your charming designs. Happy New Year! Cherry Kay

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